This car (not the car shown) came into the ownership of Haldex through the following
story. Bo Andersson who ownes some parts for a Thulin motorcycle was on
a tour in north of Sweden stopped at
Torsongs museum in the landscape of Dalarna south and near the city of Borlänge in order to ask for
motorcycle parts for his Thulin mc.

The Torsång owner had been
interested for old motor vehicles for a long time. If there were any
parts, he should know. He didn't but there was a Thulin
car
type A (picture
from veteran car magazine Signalhornet) in the north of Sweden for sale.

Bo took this information
back to Haldex Company and they, at last succeeded to buy this car. As
you can see on
pictures
it was thoroughly renovated and is now in a good
stand. Haldex has also built a special trailer in order to be able to
take the car to markets and meetings.

Weiertz brothers
As a last effort two Swedish brothers had
constructed a car and Thulinverken helped to produce 13 prototypes and
they were called
type B. This project was canceled when
Volvo announced their car
1927.

During WWI the
AGA factory had a main
production of machine guns and it was when this production ended that
the FN-car was bought. About 12000
AGA cars where produced before the
factory ceased. The AGA car in picture was found in Finland and renovated by
enthusiast, now placed for ever at Dahlén museum in Stenstorp.

The investments that Thulinverken or Teve as it was called for a time
after bankruptcy was the beginning of bad solvency because of expensive
production tools in order to produce the cars.

The bankruptcy estates did
continue the production up to 1927 when Volvo started to deliver their
first, car popular named
Jakob. This was the final end.

AGA car.
The car type was bought to Thulinverken through Gustaf Daléns subsidiary
AGA company outside Berlin. The name AGA had noting to do with Swedish
AGA production.

The German Works had bought? or stole the car construction from
FN producer in Belgium. Most of the parts of the car was produced in
Sweden except carburetor and electrical equipment which were imported.

Thulin car sales.Thulinverken had also a contract with a reseller for 1000 cars, of these
only 300 were produced. The car got a coach work made of wood. It was
Palle Mellblom who led this work in the beginning. He had knowledge from
the airplane production.

The car was for sale with a coach according to
the customer wish. Different
coach works offered can be seen here. The engine had an engine block
casted including the gearbox.

Adler Autobahn is a very interesting car. The model
followed the
Airflow style and also a wish from
Hitler that Germany needed fast cars for the
autobahn.

After the war the car was of no interest
for general buyers. The car had a 6 cyl. 2500 cc
engine and was front wheel drive. Such a car was for
sale in Norway in Classic Motor 2003. Totally rusty
and without engine.

All people who had owned a front wheel drive Adler know
that most models had no water pump.
The engine was mounted reverse with the gearbox in
front and fan/generator were driven by a V-belt in
front of the clutch. The V-belt was possible to be opened
up.

Cross view Adler. Ref. 49.

The car had in rear a quarter elliptic spring
mounted in rear axle and fore just under the middle
door pillar. In the front there were two/one plate
springs cross the car. One over the gearbox and one
under, these were also the uprights for front
suspension. A very interesting construction and used
on several marks in Germany. The rear construction
made it possibly for the frame to be made shorter.

Adler story.Heinrich Kleyer, 1853 - 1932,
lived in Darmstadt
where
his father had built a factory in order to produce machined
parts. Heinrich got a controlled education which pointed
that he was the once to take over factory. It was typical
for industry leaders in Germany. After elementary school he
was employed by a importer in Hamburg and sent for education
in America. 1879 his father Wilhelm died. By unknown reason
Heinrich couldn't take over the factory. This made that he
started a machine shop of his own and produced bikes on the 1
of Mars 1880 in Frankfurt am Main. About cycles it is good
to know that
Heinrich Büssing was the first to produce and sell
modern bikes. But still it was missing two

3 gear cycle from Heinrich early work. Ref. 49

important construction principles
before the bike would get it's final appearance. Heinrich
formed the modern cycle frame. He had got the idea from
Rover in England. High wheelers disappeared. The Scottish
Robert Thomsen and Irish
J.B. Dunlop was two men that invented and developed the
pneumatic rubber tire. When this production later started in
Germany 1893 Kleyer was a joint owner. Now the production of
bikes could begin and the market had an unlimited need. 1895 Heinrich
build a factory which was very large for it's time. It got
the name Adler Fahrrad-Werke.

Typewriter from Adler. Ref. 49.

Now
Heinrich had to keep himself busy with new projects. From
America he, 1886, bought a patent for a type
writer. This and other office machines became his next
lucky investment.

A early car model from Adler. Ref. 49.

Everything
went on in good order and Adler Werke earned much money
which had to be invested. The next large project became the
Adler car. 1899 the first car was delivered equipped with a
DeDion engine. The car was much alike Benz first car. Benz
allowed also Adler-Werke to produce later Benz models like
the Velo. 1903 Adler presented his first car with an engine
of his own.

There are few businessmen who started car production and
not baptize the mark after their own name. Heinrich Kleyer
is one of the few.
May be his name was impossible for a car. He choose Adler
instead. His mechanical company which had started already
1900 was reorganized 1906 when he put money only in cars
instead of bikes and 3 wheelers. Adler bought DeDion engine
1901 and made a 4

Rumpler's patent for a sving axle. Ref. 51.

wheeler with fully elliptic springs and
driving by prop shaft. 1903 Adler hired the well known
constructor
Edwin Rumpler.
He started at once to design a
complicated car with individual wheels. It became only a
prototype. Edwin had his own patent for swing axle an
torsion springs.

Adler 2.5 Typ 10

Engineer Karl Jenschke had worked at Steyer in Austria.
Here he had designed a small car called

Steyr Type 50. Ref 1

Steyer
50. This car didn't became popular enough on the market.
Karl stopped working there and moved to Adler. The type of
car he designed at Adler 1936 had considerable features from
his Austrian car Steyr. The Adler car had several feature
common with the airflow design which was popular during the
30th.

Jenschke had the opinion that if the style airflow would be
okay, the design must deal with the bottom plate. Therefore
the frame had at least two special constructions. The frame
went in front part of wheels uprights and in the rear
uprights for the plate springs and those were pointed
forwards. This made the bottom plates rather flat.

2.5 l Adler frame. Ref. 51.

The engine was placed far in the front. The rear axle was of the swing type
and was supported backwards to a plate spring cross the car.
This was a extraordinarily construction. A common gearbox
coupled direct to the engine, which also consisted of a clutch
with a steel plate. The car was in all parts new and didn't
use any old parts from previous car models. The car was
first shown at

Ambi Budd xhassie på 2.5 l. Ref. 49.

Berlin car fair 1939. Chariots were built by different
builders like Ambi-Budd and Karman. Some special chariots
came from Buhne and Gläser.

Characteristic for the cars
from Adler in the beginning of 1900 was that
the engine was placed in front ant powered over gearbox and

2.5 l models Ref. 49.

prop shaft to rear end with it's differential. During the
thirties it became front drive. The Adler models were named
1 to 8, as the ps was added. The work time for Heinrich was
now so high that he could not fulfill this by himself. He
employed now 2 engineers, Franz Starkloph and
Edmund Rumpler. These two developed the car program both the
construction and production facilities. Now Adler developed
a car of it's own without influences from other producers. Rumpler
made the first construction of a rear end with differential
and swing axel.

One popular car was what was named "kleinwagen"
equipped with V2 engine. Heinrich realized though that what
was needed was a 4 cyl. engine. This kind of engine should
take the market. Heinrich was the leader as President up to 1932.
All chariots followed the design of the day.

The high times.

Adler developed many models and equipped them engines with cylinders
up to 8. The most popular became cars with torsion springs in
the rear and cross over plate springs in front. The engine
pointed backwards and gearbox in front and cooling by thermosiphon
circulation for the smaller cars. Drive was normally on
front wheels. These were the popular Trumpf models. They
were constructed by
H.G. Röhr. May be they were a heritage from Rumpler.

Rear end drive became standard 1937 with the
model Autobahn. This car had a 6 cyl. 2.5 l engine
giving 50
ps. This was a concession for Hitler. He wanted fast cars
for the new motor ways. This was due to that the car had
temperature indicator for oil. The production of private cars
ceased 1939.

After the war.

During the war Adler was subcontractor for war production
and many Adlers looked like other vehicles in Wehrmacht.
Trial for new production was done 1948, but it was laid
down most because of vd Hagemeier didn't believed that this
would generate money. Instead he started with production of
machines. Motorcycles were produced up to 1957. Now
Triumph/Adler were merged and the English took over. The had
as war booty taken the mc constructions from Adler through
Ariel.

The sad end.

Memorial plate at Adler Werke. Ref. 49.

After this several selling of the company in different
steps was done. The new owner produced office machines and other office
products by the different
owners. First it was Grundig, then American Litton, Volkswagen
and at last Olivetti. The Adler company was emptied of its money and at last theproduction ceased 1998.

The car is equipped with power
gas generating plant, mounted in the rear. During WWII all
petrol/oil were rationed for benefit of Ambulance, fire department
and military forces in Sweden. All privately driven cars had
to build in gas generating plants. Producer gas is built on the
principle to produce carbon monoxide. By heating wood or coal while
weak oxygen supply. In this way an explosive gas was generated and could be
used in a rebuilt petrol engine. This was a temporary solution, but
any good power was not able to get.
Engine 6 cyl. 4,4 litres
Power 98 hk 3880 rpm
Gearbox 4 forwards 1 back
Electrical system 6 voltWeight 2410 kg.
Max speed 110 km/h

I remember this car driving through Grums when I lived there.
Pope Waverly during renovation at Torsong museum. Ref. 1

Bilder på bilmärken som passerade Chrysler

Durant Flint car 1925. Ref.49
Stoddard-Dayton. Ref. 49

Chrysler 70 sedan. Ref 1

Walter Percy
Chrysler was born in Kansas 1875, as the third child of
four. His parents had moved from Canada. They had emigrated
from Germany in early 1700. The emigration was due to
religious reasons as they were protestants. Both parents had lived in
south of Germany.

Walters father moved to Kansas as he had work at railway
building, which was the main working place at that time. He wanted
that Walter should work with this too. Walter had another
opinion and wanted to be school educated against his father's
will. He was forced to go his own way.

Work at Union Pacific

Chrysler's first employment paid him 10 cent/h, the second 5 cent,
but instead he got a four years free education as mechanic.
In this way his salary went up and down. Soon he started to
work at maintenance as mechanic at Union Pacific. Working
with this he showed good talent and he advanced and soon
became leader for this part.

The payment didn't suit Walter. He was now almost 20 years
and started to change works in order to get higher education
and raise his salary. This was not the case every time so
sometimes he had to accept lower salary.

Locomobile

Locomobile 1920 at former Skokloster car museum. Ref
1

Info Locomobile 1920 as above. Ref 1

An
important part of his life was a car fair in Chicago. Here
he saw a white
Locomobil Pheaton.
He bought this car for $6000. This was a very
expensive
car. A friend guaranteed for a
loan, when Walter only had a salary of $350 a month. It is
supposed that this car started his car interest and from
this car he learned how a car was built. He started to work at Locomobile when 34 years of age and a
salary of $275. Now he bought a
StearnDureya
6 cylinder car. His salary started to raise. This was
needed because he had large debts

Stearn. Ref 49

when he had
bought 2 cars. At 36 years of age he got a offer of $12000
as manager at Locomobile, but instead accepted $6000 as
factory chief at Buick. Walter was now on his way into the
car business. Buick was at that time the most selling car
from General Motors. He made now so important updates in the
production that his salary raised to $25000. General Motors
and Durant had trouble for a while and Walter worked at
Nash Locomobile Company
but when Billy Durant again had control of GM 1915 Walter
went back. GM got now the name General Motors Corporation.

"His mate" Durant

There
were in America 1906 125 different car marks for sale. This
was not good in the long run. It showed also that several
marks had to cease production as they were not able to sell
cars enough to pay their costs. In this situation there were
several quite by large car producers who saw the need for
merging distribution and selling. This was a good idea. In
this situation

William Durant
took control over General Motors,
which had been controlled by Nash, 1916.
Chrysler was offered by Durant to take over the Buick
production
(more about Buick).
Buick was good selling. Many
standing alone marks were connected to GM. See Oldsmobile.

As opposite party for GM the United States Motor Company started 1910. This union only survived till 1913 when it was
overtaken by
Walter Flanders
who reorganized it to Maxwell Motor. This became later Chrysler.

Argo.
Ref. 49

Chalmers 1922. Ref. 49

When 2 so powerful men like Durant and Chrysler met,
they should of course not work together in the long run. They
were born to lead their own companies.

Chrysler withdraw from GM.

When Durant started to involve in the Chrysler leadership
"war" naturally started between them. This ended that
Chysler quit working for GM 1919. He had during this time
earned so much money and a large part was in GM shares. This
was more than the director in the 2000 ever could dream of in
bonus and shares. These shares were sold/bought by Durant
for $10 millions. Chrysler now withdraw from work at the age
of 44. He opened an office in Detroit as one of the most
richest leader in America. Principle he only for new offers.
During this time he projected Chrysler building in NewYork.

New
challenges.

Quite right in the end of 1919 his old
friend banker Ralph van Vechten, who once had financed his

buying of the Locomobile 1908. Willys Overland
(more about Willys)
was on it's way for bankruptcy and
Walter Chrysler was asked to save the company. This was the
beginning to create Chrysler Corporation. Walter worked at
Willys for 2 years. During this time he created an engine construction center by employing 3 engineers from
Studebaker. Chrysler didn't got the support from Willys
border to approve a new engine. This was of course a trial
to take over Willys.

The beginning of Chrysler Cooperation.

The Willys affair led to that Walter resigned, but got a new
mission at once to save Maxwell Motors. Walter's plan was
already settled in order to start his own car production and
Maxwell was one part of this. During this time surely
there were several shady economical decisions, with trials
for overtaking and buying of factory buildings and so on.
Walter didn't succeed with Willys but this this time he
succeeded to take over Maxwell and with the new engine
developed a new car.

Anything can be done with money.

If you have enough with money anything can be done.
Particular during the depression during the end of 20 th.
His new engine had 4 cylinders, pressure lubrication. The
engine was mounted on rubber holders, just as the chariots.
The car had 4 wheel brakes, oil and inlet air filter. Till
1929 an automatic gearbox could be added in the car on order.
Chrysler had also constructed a new rim, which had the
characteristic that the rubber part didn't left the rim when
punctured. This rim style is today world

Maxwell 1925 later named Chrysler. Picture from for
sale site.

standard. This first car had still the name Maxwell, but was incorporated
in Chrysler Corporation when production started. 1925 the
Maxwell mark had disappeared and the name Chrysler could be
read on the front instead.

Now
Walter P Chrysler had free hands to develop his company. He
bought Dodge Brothers, created DeSoto and Plymouth
(suggested by Joseph Frazer at a border meeting) in order
to be able to offer all price ranges. The most expensive and
luxurious got the name Imperial..

From 1928 to 1930 Chrysler had stabilized his empire
and was now the third largest car producer in America.

This was done during the great depression when many car
marks disappeared after the stock exchange crash 1929. The
rest is history.

If you want to know more about the manipulation by Chrysler
in the American car jungle during the difficult years of the
depression. Search among my links.

Ransom Eli OldsRansom
was the first generation child after his parents who immigrated
from Dorset in England. He was one of fourth sons and born
1864. His father was named Pliny Fiske Olds (1828-1908)
worked as a black smith and married to Sarah
Whipple. He had settled in Geneva Ohio. The family had four
sons and 2 daughters. Ransom was the younger and one older
brother was Wallace born 1856.
In this text I use the following names: Ransom=Ranny= Olds

At the age of 22 1886, the family moved to Lansing
Michigan. Ohio and Michigan are

Lansing and Detroit near "the Great Lakes". Ref 49.

situated in connection with the three
great lakes on the border to Canada. It was in this area all
car factories
established. His father continued with his
business and brought it in line with the needs in the area. Ransom
had both in Geneva and Lansing done missions for the farmers.
It is said that he by time didn't like horses and his most
wish was to be spared from go by horse wagon. His father
opened a firm named P.F.Olds and son (Wallace). Later Ransom
took over Wallace place by paying him $1000. Ransom didn't
go in
the schools for it's days. Instead he educated according time
went on.

In the company Ransom worked eagerly and created a horseless
wagon. At this time it was steam engine that was important.
He succeeded
1887 produce a wagon with 3 wheels. It was possible to
drive it in 30 km/h. Next version was a gas driven vehicle

Ransom Oldssteam car. Ref 1 See link "Early
cars story". Ref 49

with four wheels.
This
one was bought by an English firm for transferring to India.
This transport was not succeeded as the steamer probably
sank on it's way. Ransom was a good mechanics. He had learned the job
during his time when he worked with his father. He got his
first patent 1886. It was about a producer gas engine which he
had developed by himself. The engine was meant to be mounted
as a help engine for boats. During the 1880 about 2000 of
this type was sold and the company earned lots of money.
This type of engine was tried in a horseless wagon already
1887. His father Pliny Olds didn't believe in this project
but he didn't stop it. Now it was time to start a company
for production of the horseless wagons. The old firm was
abandoned and Ransom started Olds Motor Vehicle Company in
Lansing 1897.

Olds first petrol driven car. Ref 1 See link "Early
cars story".

"Ranny"
visited the Chicago Fair 1893 where he saw a petrol/kerosene
driven engine. He understood that this was a solution which
could be used. An intensive work started now in order to
develop the gas engine in order to change gas for
petrol/kerosene.

He had a ready solution for such an engine 1896.
For this construction he searched for patent the
same year. His activities of course cost much money and
Ransom understood that he could not afford all that
money. He came in contact with a restaurant owner in Lansing,
Edwar W. Sparrow.

He invested money but didn't understand
the way how to develop an engine to mount in a wagon.
Sparrow demanded result from his invested money. Olds and
Sparrow were not agreed on the way to work and Olds company
almost went bankruptcy. Olds merged, 1899, now his father's
gas generated engines and got a new investor.

Fredrick L. Smith. son til Samuel. Ref 49.

It was a cooper and lumber merchant,
Samuel L. Smith
in Detroit. Olds Motor Works now moved
to Detroit where a new factory building was set up. This became the first factory in order to build cars in Detroit.
The meaning was that the Olds runabout 1901 should be build
here and it was equipped with Ranny's engine.

The car got the name Olds Curved Dash. He had orders for 300
and planed to sell it for $650. The weight was 650 pounds
and it was advertized as $1 per pound. There were also other
prototypes made to show different models. Now it happened that the

Curved Dash Olds at Motala museum. Ref 1

factory was on fire and most of the
production locals were destroyed. Several different rumours
about that all prototypes and drawings had burned but it is
not true because these had been stored in basement where
they were protected.

The production now started in the way
to get sub production in surrounding companies and during
this year 400 cars were produced. During the time when the
factory was rebuild with help of the insurance money. All
this made that Ransom was overstrained and had to slow down
on his intensive work.

In order to be able to do this a
smaller factory was build in Lansing and Ranny took care of
this. The selling of the car now went on without trouble
1905 and the production was 5000 cars a year. The last car
rolled of the line 1907. (Note my reminder about
Åtvidaberg car in Sweden.)

Samuel Smith's son Fredric had 1902 taken over the lead
in Detroit. Fredric and Ransom were not agreed and this
ended up with that Ransom left his membership in Olds
Motor in Detroit. In big companies it is said that a leader
had resigned on his own demand. Anyway Fredric was president
and he had naturally forced Ranny to resign.

Ranny sold all
his shares and withdraw to Lansing. With this money he
started a new car production under the name REO Motor Car
Company. This was the initials in his own name. Olds had all
basis to be able to start a new production and 1905 till
1909 he succeeded to sell several cars of different models.

In order to put Fredric on press he also sold a runabout for
$650. Ransom's old company in Detroit, Smith-Olds Motor
Works was already 1908 sold

REO Royale Eight 1932. Ref 49

to the new car producer
General Motors. With this money he started a new car production
under the name REO Motor Car Company. This was the initials
in his own name. Olds had all basis to be able to start a
new production and 1905 till 1909 he succeeded to sell
several cars of different models. In order to put Fredric on
press he also sold a runabout for $650. Ransom's old company
in Detroit, Smith-Olds Motor Works was already 1908 sold to
the new car producer General
Motors. Olds now let his employers run the work in Lansing
and instead he worked with banking. He only interfered when
his company 1934 almost was bankruptcy. 1936 he withdraw
from REO and instead started to produce larger lorries.

REO runabout 1905. Ref 49.

Diamond T. Ref 49.

REO Bus. Ref 49.

The company REO was later bought by White Trucks and REO was
merged into Diamond T in order to win effects for common
productions. Volvo lorries show up as a partner in White,
in
the end of 1990. During the WWII there were no production
problems but after the war there were
troubles
for the company. During a period they produced garden
machines and marine engines and had also other types of
activities.
Olds creation which ended in a restructured company in
scrap (recycling) line of business. May be a hard word but
Nucor
Corporation works with
recycling
of iron scrap.
(Interesting site).
The recycling for Nucor 2007 represent a recycled SUV car every fourth second.

The Ransoms car mark Oldsmobile was laid down by General Motors
1990.

Ransom Old Race Car "Pirate"
Ref 49

Wonder if Ransom Eli Olds, who died 1950 is sufficient
what became of his creation.